On Tuesday 05 April 2011 13:15:03 todd rme wrote: > There is a discussion going on about how Wayland will be handling > screen locking: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2011-April/000874.html > > However, from the discussion, I am a little concerned how this would > work with, for instance, plasmoids on the screensaver. I don't know > the technical details about either Wayland or the plasma screensaver, > but just in case there really are such conflicts I thought I should > bring it to your attention. It is obviously better to make sure > Wayland supports what KDE needs initially rather than trying to get > major changes implemented later. I did not read the whole thread, just the first sentence of Kristian's reply and I fully agree: the screen locker needs to be in the compositor. Something I have been thinking about doing in X as well. If time permits I will write a blog post about it, some time soon.
And yes as the compositor we can do whatever we want, even give Plasma the focus. More likely in a Wayland world, the compositor will be part of Plasma or Plasma will be part of the compositor. In general I think it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early to think about it and I hope that Wayland development does not get stuck in discusions about foo, network transparency, bar, network transparency and network transparency. Cheers Martin
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